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vfne has also been planted in Madeira, and 

 produces a very superior wine, known by the 

 name of Cerciel Madeira : this island also 

 affords us a sweet wine, called Malmsey 

 Madeira, but the genuine Malmsey wine is 

 the produce of Malvisia, and is now very rare. 

 The ancients sometimes ripened particular 

 wines, by placing them in the smoke above a 

 fire, or in an upper part of their houses ; and 

 it is well known to the moderns, who are cu- 

 rious in their Madeira wines, how much they 

 improve by being kept in a garret, instead 

 of a vaulted cellar. Good West-India Ma- 

 deira that has been exposed to the frost, as 

 well as the heat of summer, will be found to 

 have ripened, as well as by a voyage to the 

 East-Indies. 



The Teneriffe wine, when about three years 

 old, can hardly be known from Madeira; but 

 as it gets older it becomes sweet and mellow, 

 like Malaga. Formerly there was made at 

 Teneriffe a great quantity of canary sack, 

 which the French call Vin de Malvesia, and 

 we, corruptly after them, Malmsey, from Mal- 

 vesia, a town in the Morea, famous for lusci- 

 ous wines. 



The luscious red wine called Lachryma 

 Christi, is produced from vineyards on Mount 

 Vesuvius. 



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